The Day of the Roaring

'Everything I love in a crime novel - passion, interesting and rooted characters and a great story' Ann Cleeves

Don't miss this award winning debut crime thriller set in Sheffield introducing DI Diana Walker: A grizzly murder has Diana questioning everything she knows, and secrets come to light that threaten to tear her world apart

About the author

Nina Bhadreshwar was born in Ipswich and raised in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, during the Yorkshire Ripper years and the Miners’ Strike. At nineteen, she trained and worked as a journalist at her local paper before setting up her own magazine, The Real State. Relocating to Watts, Los Angeles, following a tour with a Mexican-American theatre group, she covered the situation of the gangs post-truce and became the press officer and biographer of Death Row Records. She returned to the UK in her mid-twenties and re-trained as a teacher. Now, Nina is doing a PhD at Dundee University while writing her second novel. She is a graduate of the University of East Anglia’s Crime Fiction MA. The Day of the Roaring won Little Brown's UEA Crime Fiction award in 2022 and is her first novel.

Product details

• Authors: Nina Bhadreshwar
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 28.08.2025
• EAN: 9780008645724
• ISBN: 978-0-00-864572-4
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Crime & mystery, Fiction: special features, FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological, Thriller / suspense, Narrative theme: Social issues, Psychological thriller, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Crime and mystery: police procedural, Sheffield and Rotherham